Prosperous Armenia Party Offices Bombed
A bomb exploded yesterday outside the Party Headquarters for Prosperous Armenia, damaging much of the headquarters, but mostly surrounding shops. Read more here:
http://armenianow.com/?action=viewArticle&AID=2118&lng=eng&IID=1127&PHPSESSID=4aa5330c77a4f60499c8717981f8320c
In other news, I was planning on attending a meeting last night to recruit Diasporans to be election observers. The meeting was cancelled last minute as the Armenian Government claimed that Diasporans cannot be election monitors. The organization recruiting, It's Your Choice, went to court last night, and I have no news yet on the outcome. There were some protesters that made some noise:
http://a1plus.am/en/?page=issue&iid=47852
http://armenianow.com/?action=viewArticle&AID=2118&lng=eng&IID=1127&PHPSESSID=4aa5330c77a4f60499c8717981f8320c
In other news, I was planning on attending a meeting last night to recruit Diasporans to be election observers. The meeting was cancelled last minute as the Armenian Government claimed that Diasporans cannot be election monitors. The organization recruiting, It's Your Choice, went to court last night, and I have no news yet on the outcome. There were some protesters that made some noise:
http://a1plus.am/en/?page=issue&iid=47852
posted by Arsineh at 10:49 AM
2 Comments:
Well, just to bring a little clarity, It’s Your Choice didn’t turn to the court last night, it turned to the CEC to clarify that the law about NGO’s does not forbid to have foreign members including observers, and while there is a provision in the Electoral Code stating that the proxies need to be Armenian citizens, there is no such a provision about observers. Thus, IYC has managed to prove it and diasporan observers can hold observation mission as well.
As I talked to Harutyun Hambardzumyan, the head of IYC, IYC apologies that you found the office closed, as that time they were at CEC trying to solve the problem. However, the meeting and the observer education is sure to take place as soon as the dates are made clear.
Cheers.
Thanks for the clarification. I actually just found out that my source on the matter was not accurate and I had my information muffled. Sorry for that.
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